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There are lots of ways to measure diversity, but looking at just the portion of councillors who are BIPOC, this is the most diverse group that Toronto has ever elected at once:

learning from ontario and the doug ford reich

Notwithstanding that he's a right-wing guy who ran a conservative-leaning publication who repeatedly published articles by a fake AI-generated author, this seems like an upgrade from @canadaland.com's the current host

Matt is right: Chris Alexander’s withdrawal speech DOES read like a poem. Thank you @hausofdecline.bsky.social for an incredible night and backing track and @edwardrow.com for recording.

King headed west was really bad last night too, most of the reason seemed to be very slow general speed, stopping for lights, stopping at intersections despite a green light, the actual pickup/drop off stops themselves, vehicles illegally driving through king /stopping at lights/being confused

Gabe Blanc withdrawing in Uni-Rose and endorsing Mile Layton

One of the last links to the 1960s Yonge Street strip...

Thread about the Ontario bike lane ruling, based on @edwardrow.com on X When all the evidence shows that more car lanes don't help congestion, and the gov's own reports show that removing bike lanes no won't help congestion, the judge ignored that and goes off his own vibes as "common sense” (1/6)

With huge thanks to the 190 people who've donated so far, we're now at $17,375, which is 35% of the way to our $50K legal defence goal! At this pace, we need about 350 more people to give. Read about the case and how to support.

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 14, including mourners attending funeral. The slow motion genocide continues. aje.news/1emeq9

realized instagram lets you download an archive of stories you've posted in relative quality and order w a json file so I've made it public because why not edwardrow.com/stories-arch...

The Conservative Party of Canada spent $100 million trying to convince Canadians to vote for Pierre Poilievre last year They lost the election and ended the year with a $14 million deficit

what in the Philip K. Dick

GLOBAL CONVENIENCE - Cosmo Dean / Trevor Wheatley, 2026

Working on an archive project for my past council coverage and some of these old quotes from Councillor Brad Bradford are wild in retrospect. This was April 2022! Not that long ago!

Though I remain very skeptical of WE Charity’s merits, I can’t say I’m unhappy about this!

Old Fire Hall in the Port Lands, six years, one month and two days apart (they also physically moved it 78 feet to the west and raised it to a new grade along with the rest of the area) 2020-05-03 /// 2026-06-05

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

I feel like people who used to work for Canadaland should be calling Jesse out. I don't think it's appropriate that he issues targeted attacks on other journalists and misrepresents reality without pushback from his peers and colleagues who helped legitimize him

It is absolutely ridiculous that actual media can't post on meta but one loud dude can.

this annoys me beyond measure daily

We need aggressive signal updates - from my observation, the primary source of congestion below appears to signal timing mismatching traffic flows. Transit priority ~and updates to ensure real-time adaptive for all modes - should've happened a long time ago.

in toronto the driver would have already been in, and just stopped in the streetcar lane lol - we'd also have like 20 different orgs yelling about how having a dedicated lane for them doesn't make sense (this one doesn't even appear painted, just a tiny curb)

Leave the World Behind (2023)

united states of america's "paper of record" lol

whole thing is wild but I mean this alone, considering the margin, pretty much requires a contesting of the results - and the ontario liberal party should’ve been the one calling for it instead of leaving it to the candidates lol

The owner of Nieuport Aviation, the J.P. Morgan-affiliated IIF, is registered in the Cayman Islands. A former J.P. Morgan banker, Hai-Gi Li, sits on the board of Nieuport Aviation. A 2023 document from J.P. Morgan also lists Nieuport Aviation under its portfolio/operating companies roster.

Toronto’s position on our own public parks seems to range from negligence to outright animus

Can't imagine why the parks are always a torn up, muddy mess

when i worked for the city of fort mcmurraypicking up trash we weren't as disrespectful to our parks as Toronto's park workers are. yeesh